Shane Moran - Alternation Journal
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ion. Johannesburg: SATRK.<br />
This does not require that we lose focus on the specificity of regional studies, o<br />
ican State: Thc Origins of Racially Exclusive Democracy.<br />
necessity of situating South African exceptionalisni within the continental contex<br />
Hall and 1Brrow (1998) stress, there is a need for area studies to counte South Africa: Capital Accumulation and Violence. Econonz~i and<br />
preoccupation with globalisation which has a 'natural allure' and carries with it 'n<br />
mysteries'. The integration of South African and African studies in a pe<br />
cross-regional studies involves working within the tension between the reg<br />
global, and this entails acknowledging the continuing importance ofpolitical econo<br />
'There is much in Citizen and Subject which relates directly to<br />
experience and, despite his insistence on blending the South African into a<br />
1997. The Making ofApartlzeid 1948-1961: Conflict and Corrlprowzlse. Oxford:<br />
African Studies, Marndani is not blind to the singularity and marked<br />
between South African and continental experiences. He sees the speci<br />
count~y in tile 'strength of its civil society, both white and black' (28), but he also car<br />
a disturbing waniing: Paper on Local Governnlent, issued by the Ministry for Provincial Aff'airs and<br />
titutional Developn~ent. March 1998. Government Gazette 13 March ( 1998).<br />
independent Africa sliows apartheid South Africa one possible outcornc of<br />
Francis 1974. Mine Labour in South Africu. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.<br />
a reformed state structure, deracialised but not democratized-whether<br />
achieved through armed struggle or through negotiations, through<br />
independence from a foreign colonial power or through strategic<br />
engagement with an erstwhile colonizing resident minority: a deracialized<br />
but decentralized despotism (6 1).<br />
In the mind of this reviewer the warning is timely and to the point. Current tende<br />
towards accom~nodation with the decentralised despotism which will entrap the<br />
population in neo-colonial power relations are strongly evident and unopposed acro<br />
party lines.<br />
Social Policy Progr<br />
University of Durban-Westvi<br />
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